Posted by Racer on January 19, 2004, at 11:37:08
In reply to Re: CTLU » Racer, posted by noa on January 19, 2004, at 8:08:54
Yep, you just got your diploma, girlfriend!
Part of the acronym thing was my aunt working for the Navy. DOD types like acronyms. She had a file in her office, contributed to by most of her department, called the RFN letters. Really [we all know what the F stands for] Nuts. Some of them were real winners. But the RFN acronym led to things like RFS (stupid), CFI (Completely F Insane), TFPO (Totally F P***ed Off), etc.
And then there was the way my mother and some of her friends communicated with one another around the kids. Things like NOKD: "Not Our Kind, Dear" or, as one of them put it, NQOCD: "Not Quite Our Class, Dear". (Then again, I grew up hearing things like, referring to an aunt-by-marriage who kept a sponge next to her bathtub, "It's not that it's a cultural artifact, dear, it's that she doesn't realize that it is." Someone finally explained it to me: back in either my grandparents house or my greatgrandparents house, the wall above the bathtub was plaster and lathe, rather than tile. After every bath, you used the sponge to wipe down the wall, to avoid the moisture getting into the plaster. This aunt saw the sponge there, and thought it was considered a necessary sign of proper housekeeping and put one next to her own, tile walled, bathtub. A cultural artifact.)
(Oh, yeah, and my mother and aunt-by-birth and their friends could almost come to blows over things like whether or not Julius Caesar could be considered the first of the 12 Caesars. They were weird people, but interesting.)
So, congratulations on your proud and successful completion of the academic rigors of CTLU.
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